LA School District Hires Survailance Company To Monitor Students Online Activity...

...On & OFF Campus.

I have a problem with this. A very big problem with this. Before we actually see the article, I wanna go over one thing with you though.

“The whole purpose is student safety,” Glendale Unified Superintendent Dick Sheehan told CBS Los Angeles. “Basically, it just monitors for keywords where if a student is considering harming themselves, harming someone else.”

The whole point is to spy on their students wherever they are. It's not for student safety. You cannot do this though. This is a violation of one's privacy and the 4th amendment. Do the students get to consent to this? What if they don't want to be part of it? This is an unreasonable search of their info online. The government has no right. Their argument is always "We wanna protect our kids!" Why not arm the damn teachers with guns then? Oh wait, a gun free zone is better than that for them apparently.

From The Daily Caller:

A school district amid the vast suburban sprawl of Los Angeles has hired a self-described social network monitoring service to stalk its students on internet-based platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.

The Glendale Unified School District already piloted the invasive tactic in three schools last year in conjunction with the company, called Geo Listening, reports CBS Los Angeles. For this year, the district decided to expand the program to include the social media postings of 13,000 students across eight middle schools and high schools.

It’s all for the teen and preteen students’ own good, you understand—to protect them. 

“The whole purpose is student safety,” Glendale Unified Superintendent Dick Sheehan told CBS Los Angeles. “Basically, it just monitors for keywords where if a student is considering harming themselves, harming someone else.”

By spying on students’ computer use, Sheehan explained, school officials will have access to crucial information as quickly as possible.

Each day, explains the Glendale News-Press, Geo Listening will produce a report for Glendale administrators that catalogs social network posts by frequency and by topics such as cyber-bullying, drug abuse, vandalism and skipping school. For good measure, there are other hopelessly vague categories including hate and despair.

The monitoring service will cost the district $40,500 this year.

The school district claims it was able to intercede to help a student contemplating suicide thanks to last year’s pilot program. 

“The administrator was contacted at the school site. Then we made contact with the student, the student’s family and we got them the appropriate help,” Sheehan boasted to CBS Los Angeles.

“We do monitor on and off campus, but we do pay attention during school hours,” the superintendent also noted. “We do pay more attention to the school computers.”

Not surprisingly, the CEO of Geo Listening, Chris Frydrych, also favors the program.

“We have provided information to school districts, which has led to numerous successful interventions on behalf of students that intended self-harm, suicide, bullying, truancy, substance abuse, and vandalism. We monitor only public posts to social networks. We do not monitor privatized pages, SMS, MMS, email, phone calls, voicemails,” he told the CBS affiliate. 

The station found a parent and student duo which supports the district’s snooping.

“If there was a red flag, if he’s talking about stress at school or he can’t take it anymore, if I won’t be able to deal with it, I would want somebody to come in,” concerned mother Felicia Johnson reflected.

Yalda T. Uhls, a researcher at the Children’s Digital Media Center at UCLA, told the News-Press that she appreciated the district’s attempts to stop cyber-bullying. At the same time, she suggested that the monitoring could cause students to mistrust adults who conduct around-the-clock digital surveillance. 

“As a parent, I find it very big brother-ish,” Uhls said. 

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KY Students To Michelle Obama: Your Lunch Food Taste's Like vomit

I always knew this would come. It first happened in Wisconsin. Madison is where it was I think. It's the story of a school district trying to live within the money it's given, so they have to cut back on things. Meals was one of those programs that could have been cut down a bit. So, Michelle and her "Let's Move, America" fitness push came in and gave them a supplement lunch  menu. "Healthier" and cheaper it was supposed to be.

Well, they actually hated it in Wisconsin. They (students) made video's of them playing and hating on the food itself. Many complained of starving in them that it was too little. This may be the kind of meal for a skinny girl who wants to stay really thin, but it's not meant for the athlete's or really anyone else.

And so today's case comes from Harland, KY, in it's rural area's. Student's complain of it "tasting like vomit". Parents complain to the school board that their children go hungry throughout the day.

From The Daily Caller:

Students in a rural Kentucky county — and their parents — are the latest to join a growing national chorus of scorn for the healthy school lunches touted by first lady Michelle Obama.

“They say it tastes like vomit,” said Harlan County Public Schools board member Myra Mosley at a contentious board meeting last week, reports The Harlan Daily Enterprise.

The growing body of USDA meal regulations implemented by the Department of Agriculture under the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010″ has long been a signature issue for the first lady.Denizens of Harlan County don’t much care, though. 

Their primary concern at the board meeting was a bevy of complaints that local children are starving at lunch — and for the remainder of the school day — because the food on offer in the cafeteria is crappy and there isn’t nearly enough of it.

“Kids can’t learn when they’re hungry!” parents shouted to the board, according to the Enterprise.

Other gripes involved the new bread, which students don’t want to eat because it’s brown wheat bread, and the new milk, which is skim or one percent fat, not two percent or whole. The cafeteria’s chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk offerings are now nonfat.

Jack Miniard, the school district’s director of school and community nutrition, was on hand to explain that the federal government now governs both food choices and portion sizes in most American school districts including Harlan County.

Under the National School Lunch Program, participating schools must provide lunches — including free or reduced price lunches — with minimum amounts of fresh fruits, fresh vegetables and whole grains. Also, in what presumably falls outside the hunger-free aspect of the act, there’s a calorie cap: 850 for high school lunches, 700 for middle schools and a mere 650 calories for kids in elementary school. 

Students can only have one serving of meat or other protein. However, rich kids can buy a second portion each day on their own dime.

Servings of carbohydrates such as potatoes are limited to just a single serving of three-fourths of a cup per student.

On the plus side, students can eat as many fruits and vegetables as they want.

Across the country, students and parents have expressed dissatisfaction with the federal government’s new food regime. Some wealthier suburban school districts are simply backing out of the National School Lunch Program, though doing so can mean giving up a six-figure annual subsidy for the district.

In all honest, I sympathize with the kids, but I urge them to bring in their own lunches. 1. You can bring whatever the heck you want 2. Michelle Obama can't touch your lunch from home 3. I end my lunch feeling satisfied and full. So while the complaining is nice, let's try something new and, gasp, pack your own damn lunch.

I need someone to tell me when it became the governments sole responsibility to feed your kids. We already have bad enough schools as it is, and these kinds of government lunch programs aren't helping them get any better.

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Tax Dollars Now Going Towards... Helping Illegals Get & Keep Jobs?

Oh Liberals, how can you still love this President? After all he's done to America. And you Socialists out there, this should enrage you. The Obama Admin recently struck a deal with Mexico to give illegal aliens their so-called protected rights here in the US. It's funny, cause Obama say's he looking out for the Middle Class, he's a protector of the Middle Class, but this? This sort of breaks the glass shield that portrays such a message.

Instead of now being fired for being an illegal alien, they may now be able to keep those jobs. Jobs that Americans once used to hold. e'll be shelling out tax dollar after tax dollar to teach them about their "civil rights" (illegal aliens have them here?), minimum wage laws and workplace safety laws. Sounds cheap, doesn't it.

From Freedom Outpost:

Instead of making sure that U.S. employers are not hiring illegal immigrants, the Obama administration has actually signed a secret deal with Mexico to protect “the rights” of illegal immigrants in the workplace.  According to this “memorandum of understanding”, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will spend U.S. taxpayer dollars to educate illegal immigrants about their civil rights, workplace safety, and minimum wage laws.  This is yet another example of how the Obama administration is openly flouting the law and doing all that it can to promote even more illegal immigration.  We are rapidly becoming a lawless nation that has absolutely no regard for the rule of law, and it all starts with the horrendous example that is being set at the very top. 

I was absolutely stunned when I first heard about this new agreement.  How in the world can the U.S. government promise to assist illegal immigrants in the workplace?  This deal probably breaks a whole bunch of existing immigration laws, but nobody is doing anything about it.  The following is an excerpt from the press release about this new deal… 

The Miami District Office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Orlando today with the Consulate General of Mexico in Miami and Consulate of Mexico in Orlando.  The agreement establishes an ongoing collaboration between these entities to provide Mexican nationals with information, guidance, and access to resources on the prevention of discrimination in the workplace regardless of immigration status.  Mexican Consul Efran Nicolas Leyva Acevedo of Orlando and Miami District Office Director Malcolm S. Medley signed the agreement.  Acting Mexican Consul General Vladimir Hernandez Lara of Miami signed the document prior to the meeting today.
“By signing this Memorandum of Understanding today with the Mexican Consulate, we of the EEOC’s Miami District have solidified our continued and longstanding commitment to this underserved community,” said Medley.  “This agreement provides the opportunity for ongoing education, outreach and service by the EEOC to Mexican nationals in our area.  We look forward to a long-lasting and significant partnership.”
Under the terms of the MOU, the EEOC will expand its relationship with these two consulates by providing them with Spanish-language materials explaining the laws enforced by the federal agency.  In addition, the EEOC will partner with consulate offices to provide information and training to areas of the state where migrant farm workers and other Mexican nationals live and work.

And of course this comes at a time of high unemployment for U.S. citizens and at a time when wages are being driven down by competition from illegal immigrants inside this country and by competition from foreign workers overseas. 

Unfortunately, the Obama administration does not seem to care about that.  What is important to them is the radical political agenda that they are relentlessly pursuing. 

The following is what former police detective Iris Aquino had to say about this agreement… 

“In other words, the Obama administration has been siding with — and protecting — lawbreakers, while persecuting and prosecuting American business owners, who in the past administrations were denigrated and even arrested for hiring — or harboring — illegal aliens” 

But of course this is not the first time the Obama administration has done this sort of thing.  Over the years the Obama administration has made it abundantly clear that it is on the side of the illegal immigrants.  In fact, the Obama administration has even gone after employers that require their employees to speak English in the workplace even though federal law permits them to do so… 

Although federal law allows employers to require English on the job, a national healthcare firm will dish out nearly half a million dollars to settle a discrimination lawsuit in which the U.S. government alleges Hispanic workers were punished for speaking Spanish. Filed by the federal agency that enforces the nation’s workplace discrimination laws, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the suit accuses Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. of enforcing an English-only rule against Hispanics. The firm operates nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Western and Southern states and the government says Hispanic employees were harassed for not speaking English.

And the Obama administration has also tried to do all that it can to get more immigrants enrolled in federal welfare programs.  In fact, the government actually has a website that teaches immigrants how to sign up for welfare programs once they arrive in the United States.  On WelcomeToUSA.gov, immigrants are encouraged to sign up for all of the “government benefits” that they are eligible for.  Here is an excerpt from that page… 

Depending on your immigration status, length of time in the United States, and income, you may be eligible for some federal benefit programs. Government assistance programs can be critically important to the well-being of some immigrants and their families. Frequently, however, there is a lack of information about how to access such benefits. Benefit programs can be complicated and you may be given misleading information about how they operate.

But illegal immigrants are not supposed to be eligible for welfare programs such as food stamps, right? 

Technically yes, but the Obama administration has widely distributed materials that inform illegal immigrants that their immigration status will not be checked by government officials when they apply for food stamps. 

How bizarre is that? 

And not only is the Obama administration doing all that it can for illegal immigrants, it is even stopping state governments from enforcing our immigration laws.  In fact, the Obama administration actually took the state of Arizona to court to keep them from cracking down on illegal immigration. 

Meanwhile, illegal immigration continues to have a very negative effect on thousands of communities all over the United States.  If you doubt this, please see my previous article entitled “19 Very Disturbing Facts About Illegal Immigration That Every American Should Know.” 

So what do you think about all of this? 

Do you believe that the Obama administration should be helping illegal immigrants in the workplace?

 

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Gun Control Wars: Episode 1: The Democrat Tax-Pusher

It is a hard time for a person to be a gun owner. These days, fines and fee's, and background checks can keep you from being united with your recently purchased gun. But, what if those fines were to grow by say... 20%? How about 50% more when you buy some ammo?

Thanks to these "fine" two Democrat Representatives in the House, Danny K. Davis (D-IL) and Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), that may just happen. their bill H.R. 3018 titled "Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013" is aimed at raising the taxes for handguns by 20%, and ammunition by 50%. What's the money gonna be used for if implemented? Funding the police who will take much longer to respond to your house than you would with a gun.

From Breitbart:

Representative Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) and Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) are sponsoring legislation which amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include a 20 percent tax on handguns--"pistols [and] revolvers"--as well as a 50 percent tax on "shells and cartridges." 

The bill is H.R. 3018 and it is titled the "Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act of 2013." 

News 12 New Jersey reports that Pascrell believes a new tax on handguns "has been a long time coming." In announcing the legislation on August 21, Pascrell said, "The tax on handguns was last increased in 1955. Worse yet, the tax rate on ammunition and other types of firearms has remained the same since 1941."

The bill is designed to bring in revenue from gun and ammo sales to help cover police costs around the country. An estimated $600 million a year would be provided if the bill went into effect. 

Besides taxing "pistols [and] revolvers" the bill also contains language indicating a proposed 20 percent tax on firearms "other than pistols and revolvers."

The tax would be placed on firearms at the time of "sale by the manufacturer, producer, or importer." If implemented, this legislation will drive firearm and ammunition prices through the roof. 

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DHS Employee Wants Millitant Cells In Race War?

The Department of Homeland Security does anything but protect the homeland, and I can now prove it to you. Meet Ayo Kimathi, a DHS employee. He want's to set up and start militant cells to help move an upcoming race war..., and I'm not kidding with you.

Wait, this guy is DHS though? Why does he wanna hurt people in the US? How does he still work for the DHS? All of these are questions even I need answered. Above all though, is the fact that his co-workers don't talk to him much cause they're scared of him. He's even been called the next "Nidal Hasan".

From Breitbart:

Ayo Kimathi might have been the next Nidal Hasan. People who worked with Kimathi were reportedly afraid of him. And like Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, Kimathi talked openly about his extremist beliefs even while working for the department whose mission is to identify violent extremists.

Kimathi, aka Irritated Genie, appeared on a podcast in July 2010 in which he discussed his plans for carrying out a race war with "Europeans." In the same podcast Kimathi talked about his "plantation job" working for the government and claimed he was always spreading his message of a coming race war, even when at work.

In this clip, Kimathi discusses the message he hopes to give in which he will lay out his master plan for the coming race war. Kimathi wants to create small "cells" of 3-5 people who would inspire action including "military efforts to secure a future for our people."

 In this next clip, Kimathi discusses his "plantation job" and how he tries to spread his message of a coming race war no matter where he is.

Nidal Hasan also advertised his extremist beliefs prior to the deadly shooting at Ft. Hood. He used the acronym SoA for soldier of Allah on his business cards. He made multiple contacts to Anwar al-Awlaki and in online postings compared suicide bombing to self-sacrifice on the battlefield. Despite all of these red flags he was promoted rather than disciplined.

Kimathi, thankfully, has not acted on his violent plans. But like Hasan he seems to have gone unnoticed at a string of government jobs even as he has spoken openly for years about his dream of a race war with whites. Kimathi was placed on paid leave Saturday. He should obviously be fired immediately.

But at this point DHS also needs to explain how he was allowed to rant about a new civil war for so many years without anyone picking up on it. According to Kimathi, he talks about this wherever he goes. And according to published reports, his co-workers were afraid of him and worried he might "go postal" one day. So how is it possible that no one in authority took action? Kimathi's supervisors also need to be held accountable.

Kimathi will be out of a job soon enough. The real question is this: If DHS can't even deal with a dangerous extremist on their own payroll, how can they deal with the dangerous extremists who aren't?

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States Wave Final Goodbye's To Gun Producers In Wake Of New Gun Control

I guess some just didn't listen. It's like liberals and democrats are too stupid to see that this'll hurt normal people. But, being the caring, loving, people they are, safety comes first.

From The Daily Caller:

In recent months, several traditionally anti-gun states, and Colorado, have enacted laws that abuse the rights of the average citizen and offend their corporate citizens. The situation has led to an exodus of gun manufacturers to more friendly climes, with anti-gun states losing the significant tax revenue and jobs these companies provide.

Amongst the companies that have chosen to relocate is Magpul Industries of Erie, Colo., a manufacturer of AR-15 parts, accessories and magazines. Magpul warned the state in February that the company would move if legislation banning standard capacity magazines passed. In March, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a ban, and Magpul set out in search of a new home, possibly in Texas.

Another refugee is Kahr Arms of Rockland County, N.Y. Following New York’s enactment of the so-called S.A.F.E. Act, Kahr announced that it would be moving some of its operations from the Empire State to more gun–friendly Pennsylvania. Prior to New York’s new law, Kahr had been considering building a new facility, with 80-100 additional jobs, in Orange County, N.Y. When asked about the move by the Wall Street Journal, Kahr Vice President of Sales and Marketing Frank Harris said of New York, “We don’t feel welcome.”

PTR Industries, a maker of semiautomatic rifles in Bristol, Conn., has also chosen to move. In reaction to Connecticut’s recently enacted legislation, the company confirmed in June that it would be moving to Aynor, S.C. Similarly, fellow Connecticut gun maker Stag Arms and the Palmetto State have shown mutual interest.

Other manufacturers, such as Sturm, Ruger & Company and Beretta, have sought out firearm friendly states for their expansion plans, with Ruger opening a new plant in North Carolina. Even Remington, which has built firearms in Ilion, New York, for over 150 years, is reported to be looking to move part or all of that operation to a gun-friendly state.

Manufacturers looking to move or expand are in a buyer’s market, as several states have rolled out the welcome mat. Back in June, the Hartford Courant detailed recruiting trips by fervent gun rights supporter and shooter, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who were seeking to convince Connecticut manufacturers of the virtues of their states. Stag Arms CEO Mark Malkowski told a reporter for the National Review that the company had received “about one hundred offers” to relocate.

It is not surprising that the radical anti-gun legislatures and governors in these states failed to consider the impact these extreme new laws would have on businesses and the jobs they support. Restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans is a far more important goal to these politicians than protecting the jobs of their constituents. Fortunately, our federalist system gives people and businesses the opportunity to locate in states that continue to respect the individual rights of Americans and that best represent their economic interests.

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Rep. Rangel Believe's Young People Shouldn't Have To Pay For College

Wow Charlie, way to fall in-line with the other liberal idiots. Obama's new education standards proposed earlier have him out saying "“There is no reason why a young person should have to pay for college education, because who does it benefit except a nation?" Well, that's actually false. That same person could move out of the US, to a country we perhaps don't like. And second, when did the American people become financially liable for people to go through college. We can't even balance our own budget for crying out loud! And Obama's reaction, is to add more and more to the deficit?!

And today's youth aren't exactly that motivated to study their butt off to pass everything in college. Some are there just for the parties and the fun of it. I personally do not want  to be on the paying end of this. This is a waste of my money, and money that people need. Salaries are down in this so-called recovery. And where has Obama proposed to get the money for this from? Oh wait, tax hikes on the rich (and everyone else).

From Daily Caller:

On Martin Bashir’s Thursday MSNBC program, New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel said that no students should have to pay for college.

Rangel was reacting to President Barack Obama’s higher education proposal rollout that would put in place requirements for students and institutions to receive federal financial aid assistance.

Rangel explained to fill-in host Joy Reid that he support Obama’s plan, particularly the accountability components.

“I think it’s exciting, and certainly it’s going to bring in accountability,” he said. “You know, we have universities scattered all over the world. Sometimes you think that tuition means nothing to a large group of people who pay these enormous salaries to college presidents. But if you’re talking about production, if you’re talking about what is the college really giving someone that doesn’t want a worldwide education, they just want to be able to compete. This makes sense.”

Rangel, however, told Reid those reforms alone weren’t enough and would offer college to Americans for free.

“But you know something, Joy?” Rangel continued. “There is no reason why a young person should have to pay for college education, because who does it benefit except a nation? Who are we competing against? Not ourselves, but China and other industrialized countries, they decide what they need, and they provide the incentives. Here we don’t have nurses and doctors, and then when a person gets out of health school, I mean out of medical school, they can’t get the money to pay off their debt. It doesn’t make sense.”

 

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